Looking for Ties to Greece in the World Cup?

It’s upsetting that Greece is not in the World Cup this year; heart-breaking actually. And the two runner-up teams I root for, USA and Italy, aren’t in the cup either! So this made me dig for some Greek connections that I could possibly root for. Here they are…

Australia

Dimitris Petratos, Greek origins

Egypt

Am Warda, player on PAOK

Iran

Karim Amsarifard, player on Olympiacos

Ehsan Hajsafi, player on Olympiacos

Masoud Shojaei, player on AEK

Serbia

Aleksandar Prijovic, player on PAOK

Portugal

Head Coach Fernando Santos, former head coach of Greek clubs and the Greek National Soccer Team